{"671192":{"#nid":"671192","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Hacking the Cycle: Femtech, Internalized Surveillance, and Productivity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis Ethics \u0026amp; Coffee event features Alzbeta Hajkova, postdoctoral teaching fellow in the School of Public Policy, and Tom Doyle, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Bioethics, Indiana University to discuss\u0026nbsp;\u0022Hacking the Cycle: Femtech, Internalized Surveillance, and Productivity.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFemtech refers to a range of technologies that address health needs typically associated with women\u2019s bodies, such as maternal health, fertility, menstruation, sexual wellness, or contraception. Our talk will examine a specific popular femtech product, cycle-tracking applications, as instruments of self-surveillance. We first discuss the relationship between technology and the experience of individual temporarility. Specifically, we focus on the relationship between surveillance workplace technologies and a sense of time discipline as an internalized drive toward increased worker productivity. We then apply this framework to the analysis of cycle-tracking apps, arguing that cycle-tracking apps perpetuate the attitude that the menstruator needs to manage their cycle for the sake of reliable participation in productivity, creating a disconnect between their internal experience of the temporality of menstruation and external pressures. Our critique contributes to the existing worries surrounding femtech\u2014namely, the understanding of cycle-tracking apps as selling a false sense of women empowerment and separating users, under the guise of science, from self-knowledge of their bodies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFeaturing Alzbeta Hajkova, postdoctoral teaching fellow in the School of Public Policy, and Tom Doyle, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Bioethics, Indiana University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring Alzbeta Hajkova, postdoctoral teaching fellow in the School of Public Policy, and Tom Doyle, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Bioethics, Indiana University."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2023-11-21 15:20:10","changed_gmt":"2023-11-21 16:56:08","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-11-30T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-11-30T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-11-30T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-11-30 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-11-30 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-11-30 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Savant Building, Room 115 and Online","extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3uqQ4rm","title":"Join Online"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Hoffmann\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmichael.hoffmann@pubpolicy.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}